Creeping Bloat in Phobos

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/28/2014 3:14 AM, bearophile wrote:
> I get refusals if I propose tiny breaking changes that require changes in a
> small amount of user code.  In comparison the user code changes you are
> suggesting are very large.

I'm painfully aware of what a large change removing autodecoding is. That means 
it'll take a long time to do it. In the meantime, we can stop adding new code to 
Phobos that does autodecoding. We have taken the first step by adding the 
.byDchar and .byCodeUnit adapters.